32 Famous People Who Were Once Homeless

1. Carmen Electra in her early 20s when her boyfriend stole all of her savings and left her stranded

2. Suze Orman spent four months "California dreaming" in her van because she could not afford housing.

3. Halle Berry first moved to Chicago, she ran through her savings quickly and asked her mother for money. She was denied, and briefly lived in a homeless shelter.

4. Kelsey Grammer's past is riddled with tragic incidents, including the murders of his father and sister and the deaths of his half-brothers in a scuba diving accident. He also spent some time on the streets, camping out in an alley behind his motorcycle

5. Sylvester Stallone The actor and director lived in the Port Authority bus station for three weeks before accepting a role for 200 in a 1970's soft-core adult film

6. When Drew Carey was 18, he embarked on a cross-country trip from Ohio to California to see his brother. He ended up homeless in Las Vegas for a time, selling his blood for extra cash. He slept in his car before eventually finding work as a bank teller and a waiter at Denny's.

7. Frenchie Davis was tossed from AI

8. Djimon Hounsou West-African born where? model and actor spent many of his teen years camping out near a well-known Parisian monument.

9. Heather Mills claims to have run away from home at the age of 15 to join a "funfair" a British carnival?, eventually taking shelter in a cardboard box under Waterloo Station for four months

10. Daniel Craig was sleeping at Londons park benches struggling to be an actor

11. Hillary Swank slept in a car and on air mattresses in a vacant house, along with her mother, while attempting to launch her acting career

12. In 1997, Rose McGowan told Interview magazine that she spend a year homeless in Oregon and Washington

13. In 2011, Selma Blair admitted that when she was 21, she lived in a Salvation Army shelter in New York City

14. It was only for 24 hours,returning from Cuba legendary movie producer Robert Evans

15. Jewel spent some time in her late teens living out of a van in San Diego

16. Jim Carey We were living out of a van. I quit school at age 15 to begin working to help support my family as a janitor

17. Jim Morrison slept on rooftops, in cars and under the pier at Venice Beach, California and couch surfed at friends apartments

18. Twice homeless, the hair-care billionaire the brand and single father relied on collecting and cashing in discarded glassware what? for food funds.

19. Kelly Clarkson's move to Los Angeles from Texas turned brutal when her apartment complex burned down shortly after her arrival: "It was really, really rough because we had just moved here, and we had just moved in the day of the fire. We knew nobody hereI mean nobody, so the night of the fire, the next day, and night, we stayed in our car.

20. Not Lady Gaga but when David Letterman made the jump from his native Indiana to Los Angeles, California, he lived rather modestly out of his 1973 Chevy pickup truck. He soon picked up work writing jokes for comedian Jimmie Walker,

21. Martin Sheen has said that he spent some nights sleeping on the subway during his first days trying to make it as an actor in New York City

22. Michael-Oher -story

23. Before Napster Parker was forced to live a vagrant sort of life

24. Too young for porn Traci Lords said she was homeless after dropping out of high school

25. I was homeless, living in a car with my dad in Kansas City

26. She wound up homeless, according to the New York Post, which found her under a fake name in a New York City hospital battling hepatitis C

27. It was during her time as a homeless teen that rapper Lil Kim met her future mentor and love, Biggie Smalls. She had been kicked out of the house by her father.

28. Talk show host Don Imus reportedly sought refuge in laundromats when he was homeless after being discharged from the Marines

29. Shania Twain's family was so poor they sometimes went without food. In 1979, when Shania was 14, her mother drove her and her siblings to Toronto, where they lived in a shelter but had meals every day

30. Tyler Perry lived in his car before getting his break

31. Sam Worthington enjoyed a thriving film career in Australia before he had an existential crisis at the age of 30. He sold everything he owned and moved into his car in an attempt to figure things out, and was invited to audition for Avatar shortly thereafter. The way he put it, "I had nothing to lose."

32. Star Trek wasn't lucrative enough to keep William Shatner under a roof, apparently. The actor struggled to keep up with child support payments and alimony, and was eventually forced to live out of the back of his truck as he took gigs on a summer theater circuit.

1. Carmen Electra in her early 20s when her boyfriend stole all of her savings and left her stranded

2. Suze Orman spent four months "California dreaming" in her van because she could not afford housing.

3. Halle Berry first moved to Chicago, she ran through her savings quickly and asked her mother for money. She was denied, and briefly lived in a homeless shelter.

4. Kelsey Grammer's past is riddled with tragic incidents, including the murders of his father and sister and the deaths of his half-brothers in a scuba diving accident. He also spent some time on the streets, camping out in an alley behind his motorcycle

5. Sylvester Stallone The actor and director lived in the Port Authority bus station for three weeks before accepting a role for 200 in a 1970's soft-core adult film

6. When Drew Carey was 18, he embarked on a cross-country trip from Ohio to California to see his brother. He ended up homeless in Las Vegas for a time, selling his blood for extra cash. He slept in his car before eventually finding work as a bank teller and a waiter at Denny's.

7. Frenchie Davis was tossed from AI

8. Djimon Hounsou West-African born where? model and actor spent many of his teen years camping out near a well-known Parisian monument.

9. Heather Mills claims to have run away from home at the age of 15 to join a "funfair" a British carnival?, eventually taking shelter in a cardboard box under Waterloo Station for four months

10. Daniel Craig was sleeping at Londons park benches struggling to be an actor

11. Hillary Swank slept in a car and on air mattresses in a vacant house, along with her mother, while attempting to launch her acting career

12. In 1997, Rose McGowan told Interview magazine that she spend a year homeless in Oregon and Washington

13. In 2011, Selma Blair admitted that when she was 21, she lived in a Salvation Army shelter in New York City

14. It was only for 24 hours,returning from Cuba legendary movie producer Robert Evans

15. Jewel spent some time in her late teens living out of a van in San Diego

16. Jim Carey We were living out of a van. I quit school at age 15 to begin working to help support my family as a janitor

17. Jim Morrison slept on rooftops, in cars and under the pier at Venice Beach, California and couch surfed at friends apartments

18. Twice homeless, the hair-care billionaire the brand and single father relied on collecting and cashing in discarded glassware what? for food funds.

19. Kelly Clarkson's move to Los Angeles from Texas turned brutal when her apartment complex burned down shortly after her arrival: "It was really, really rough because we had just moved here, and we had just moved in the day of the fire. We knew nobody hereI mean nobody, so the night of the fire, the next day, and night, we stayed in our car.

20. Not Lady Gaga but when David Letterman made the jump from his native Indiana to Los Angeles, California, he lived rather modestly out of his 1973 Chevy pickup truck. He soon picked up work writing jokes for comedian Jimmie Walker,

21. Martin Sheen has said that he spent some nights sleeping on the subway during his first days trying to make it as an actor in New York City

22. Michael-Oher -story

23. Before Napster Parker was forced to live a vagrant sort of life

24. Too young for porn Traci Lords said she was homeless after dropping out of high school

25. I was homeless, living in a car with my dad in Kansas City

26. She wound up homeless, according to the New York Post, which found her under a fake name in a New York City hospital battling hepatitis C

27. It was during her time as a homeless teen that rapper Lil Kim met her future mentor and love, Biggie Smalls. She had been kicked out of the house by her father.

28. Talk show host Don Imus reportedly sought refuge in laundromats when he was homeless after being discharged from the Marines

29. Shania Twain's family was so poor they sometimes went without food. In 1979, when Shania was 14, her mother drove her and her siblings to Toronto, where they lived in a shelter but had meals every day

30. Tyler Perry lived in his car before getting his break

31. Sam Worthington enjoyed a thriving film career in Australia before he had an existential crisis at the age of 30. He sold everything he owned and moved into his car in an attempt to figure things out, and was invited to audition for Avatar shortly thereafter. The way he put it, "I had nothing to lose."

32. Star Trek wasn't lucrative enough to keep William Shatner under a roof, apparently. The actor struggled to keep up with child support payments and alimony, and was eventually forced to live out of the back of his truck as he took gigs on a summer theater circuit.